[Leica] IMG: From the Archives, an Adult Cicada

[Don Dory]

I may be bringing the romance of the nice weather of spring, nearing summer
break from school, and just the wonderfulness of being young.  Then again,
I still delight in the evening lightning bug displays.

On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 3:29 PM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> Don
> Checked them on the web and remember the sound from US coverage on the
> news channels over here. They seem to get worldwide publicity (they must
> have a great agent), and do sound pretty ok, but I wonder whether the
> noise of thousands of them outside the bedroom would pall. I remember
> having a couple of terrible nights' sleep in Borneo due to the
> incredible croaking of hundreds of frogs looking for love, but the jet
> lag mightn't have helped....
>
> Douglas
>
>
> On 27/03/2021 21:55, Don Dory via LUG wrote:
> > Douglas,  I suggest searching for Cicada sounds.   It a most amazing and
> > pleasant noise on spring/ summer afternoons.   Then there is the pleasure
> > of watching children collecting the discarded shells and doing
> imaginative
> > play.   Think of an Instagram image of these as giant creatures from the
> > black lagoon...
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 27, 2021, 4:19 PM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
> >
> >> Never seen one like that Jim, as they don't make it over here. But a
> >> very cool image! Is that one alive or dead?
> >>
> >> Douglas
> >>
> >> On 27/03/2021 18:58, Jim Nichols wrote:
> >>> When the weather is bad, I sometimes go back through the archives to
> >>> find candidates for reprocessing.  This adult Cicada was captured
> >>> during their appearance in May 2011 using my Olympus E-1 and Olympus
> >>> 35/3.5 Macro lens, and the image is uncropped.  The image was touched
> >>> up slightly with modern processing software.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20110517-Adult_Cicada.JPG.html
> >>>
> >>
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